The Church is open daily from 9am until dusk and is on Christchurch Road SW14 7AW.
The vestry office is located on the north side of the church and is open Monday-Thursday from 10am.
Services & Events
The focus of worship at Christ Church is our Sunday morning service each week at 10am. However there are other special services in our calendar including a 8am BCP Said Holy Communium and 5pm Choral Evensong, and 7.30pm Sung Compline which are each held once per month.
Messy Church Sundays and All Ages Services are listed too.
For information on our regular services plus special services at important times in the Christian calendar just click the button below.
Sunday
8.00am
1st Sunday of the month
Holy Communion BCP
10.00am
Suitable for all ages*
Sung Eucharist
The St Nicholas Chapel is open for interactive crafts & activities for younger worshippers
5pm
3rd Sunday of the month
CHORAL EVENSONG BCP
Weekdays
3.30pm
Monday
MESSY CHURCH
During term time
9.15 am
Wednesday
MORNING PRAYER
Common Worship
10.30am
Wednesday
COMMUNION,
COFFEE AND CAKE
Traditional language particularly suitable for seniors
Ministry Team
Revd Olwen Williamson
Assistant Priest (PTO)
Paul Russenberger
Licenced Lay Minister/Reader
Deirdre Munro
Pastoral Minister (SPA)
Team Rector
Revd Jonathan Haynes
Team Rector
Jonathan joined the parish in September 2022, he was previously a priest in the Parish of Putney. Before ordination Jonathan worked as an actor in theatre, and as a tutor teaching drama to children and at graduate level. He enjoys church music, the arts, theology, cooking, travel and reading and is often seen accompanied by his spaniel Max. Jonathan is married to Melanie, who is also a vicar, and they have three children.
Team Rector Email: [email protected]
Lay Members
Dilys Zeegen
Churchwarden
Sharika Fernando-Ewing
Churchwarden
James Druce BMus(Hons), LRAM, PGCert
Director of Music
Karen Brown
Church Treasurer
Greg Kyle
Administrator
Max
Church Dog
MUSIC AT
Christ Church
Recitals at Christ Church
Wednesday concerts are at 12pm with free entry (donations appreciated).
Friday concerts are at 7pm. Adults £15 – U16s £8. Available on the door.
Wed 3 June – Timothy Lin – Viola de Gamba
Fri 5 June – Lulu Ash – Singer Songwriter
Wed 10 June – The Funny Bones – Trombone Quartet
Fri 12 June – Mark Buckingham – Jazz Quartet
Wed 17th June – Leon Chakrabarti – Solo Viola
Fri 19th June – Basil Alter – Violin & Piano
Wed 24th June – Matilde Freiria – Solo Guitar
Fri 26th June – Christchurch Consort – Choir
Our choir, choristers & choral scholars
Our robed volunteer choir is the main musical ensemble at Christ Church. Rehearsals are held on Thursday evenings (7:30-8:45pm), and at 9:15am before the 10am Eucharist on Sunday mornings.
There is also a monthly Choral Evensong as well as other special services.
Anyone interested in joining the adult choir, to find out about the Chorister Award Scheme, or for applications to become a Choral Scholar please get in touch with James Druce, the Director of Music via email at [email protected]
Many of the choir members are busy and so there is an ethos of ‘come as much as you can’ but no coercion to commit to singing every week!
Messy Church
Messy Church
3.30pm to 5.00pm every Monday in term time
MESSY Church is an alternative way to go to church: running on Mondays, weekly during term time, come and join in after school from 3:30pm, for arts, craft, play, faith stories and fun.
Stay for the whole session or come and go as you can – a great way to go to church on the way home.
Bring your friends and adults and join in the Messy Church vibe!
The group does not meet on inset days, half term or weeks when the schools go back. The notice board outside the church has more information.
We also run regular ‘Messy Church Sundays’ please click button below for more information.
Find out more
Messy Church Sundays
Messy Church also happens during the 10am Sunday services throughout the year,
On these Sundays there is no sermon but instead a chance to respond to the Gospel in small groups through MESSY CHURCH craft, quiet prayer in the hall, a reflection and dicussion, or music around the piano.
Typically the Messy Church Sundays are
Mothering Sunday
Pentecost/Whitsun
Harvest
Epiphany
A place of community
A place to get together
Every Wednesday at 10.30am we hold a Communion, Coffe & Cake: A Holy Communium service which is followed by a get-together with tea, coffee and cake. This service is particularly suitable for seniors but open to all.
We’re also involved in a number of community initiatives.
Holiday at Home is an annual activities week for suitable seniors (but open to all) which takes place in the last week of July at All Saints, East Sheen.
The Sunday Lunch Scheme has a circuit across the deanery and provides Sunday Lunch for those who might need it or would like to have some company.
MESSY CHURCH is a weekly expression of church particularly designed and aimed at younger children (Toddler to Yr6) but open to all.
In particular we support MCA, Welcare, Skylarks and FiSH Neighbourhood Care which aims to inspire a caring community and service Click this link to FiSH to find out more.
Click this link https://www.mortlakecommunityassociation.org.uk/ to find out more
Click this link https://www.welcare.org/ and https://www.skylarks.charity/ to find out more
We also celebrate our links with the diocese of Matabeleland in Zimbabwe
https://southwark.anglican.org/about-us/who-we-are/kingston-episcopal-area/
You can support the Kingston Matabeleland link via https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bishop-martin-kingston
Our history
The story of Christ Church
Christ Church was designed by Arthur Blomfield in the early 1860s to accommodate the expanding parish. The architectural style is 13th century northern French. By early 1863 the building of the church was well advanced, and consecration planned for 16 April. But on Sunday 15 March, the tower collapsed, carrying a portion of the roof with it and destroying the main arch at the altar end. The church opened in January 1864.
Arthur Blomfield’s assistant on the project was the young Thomas Hardy, who ultimately gave up architecture and devoted himself to writing, penning literary classics Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Under The Greenwood Tree and the Wessex Poems to name a few!
Jesus said 'come & see'
